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Program for Seattle March 24-25, 1998 |
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| Tuesday, March 24 9:00-12:20 | |
| 9:00-9:15 | Introduction |
| 9:15 |
Keith
L. Hunley Vertebral canal size and function: a comparison of extant and fossil hominoids |
| 9:35 |
Steven
C. Josephson and Kenneth E.
Juell Sexual Dimorphism in Gigantopithecus blacki |
| 9:55 |
Li Tianyuan, Li Wensen, Wu Xianzhu The age of the Yunxian hominid fauna |
| 10:15 |
Dennis
A. Etler and Zhou
Guoxing Asian fossils and African Origins |
| 10:35-11:00 |
Coffee break |
| 11:00 |
Tim White and Berhane Asfaw Finding and preparing the Middle Awash hominid fossils |
| 11:20 |
Gen Suwa, Berhane Asfaw, Yonas Beyene, Tim White, Shigehiro Katoh, Shinji Nagaoka, Hideo Nakaya, Paul Renee, Gide WoldeGabriel The Australopithecus boisei skull from Konso, Ethiopia |
| 11:40 |
Matt
Sponheimer and Julia
Lee-Thorp Coupled carbon and oxygen isotope niche partitioning of Plio-Pleistocene fauna: implications for hominid dietary reconstruction |
| 12:00 |
Garth
Sampson Spatial analysis of Lower Paleolithic settlement pattern in Central South Africa |
| Lunch | |
| Tuesday, March 24 2:00-6:20 | |
| 2:00 | Michael
Petraglia The Paleolithic of India and its bearing on the hominid record |
| 2:20 | Kenneth
L. Verosub, Naama
Goren-Inbar, Craig S.
Feibel and Idit Saragusti Location of the Matuyama/Brunhes boundary in the Gesher Benot Ya'aqov archaeological site, Israel |
| 2:20 | Naama
Goren-Inbar Gesher Benot Ya'aqov: the Acheulian cultural sequence |
| 2:20 | Craig
S. Feibel, Naama
Goren-Inbar, Kenneth
L. Verosub and Idit Saragusti Gesher Benot Ya'aqov, Israel: new evidence for its stratigraphic and sedimentologic context |
| 2:50 | Sang-Hee
Lee Evolutionary trends in sexual dimorphism of cranial capacity in Pleistocene Homo |
| 3:10 | Susan
C. Anton and Steve
Leigh Paedomorphosis and neoteny in human evolution |
| 3:30-3:45 | Coffee Break |
| 3:45 | Daniel
E. Lieberman, Robert
C. McCarthy, Karen
Hiiemae, Philip
Lieberman and Jeffrey
B. Palmer New estimates of fossil hominid vocal tract dimensions |
| 4:05 | Susan
Pfeiffer Klasies River Mouth post-cranial comparisons |
| 4:25 | Erella
Hovers The origins of modern human behavior: a Levantine point of view |
| 4:45 | Henry
P. Schwarcz, John J.
Simpson and Christopher
B. Stringer Neanderthal skeleton from Tabun: U-series date by gamma-ray spectrometry |
| 5:05 | O.
Bar-Yosef , A.
Belfer-Cohen, T.
Meshveliani, D. Lordkipanidze and N. Tushabramashvili Paleolithic research in Western Transcaucasia, the Republic of Georgia |
| 5:25 | Curtis
W. Marean A critique of the evidence for Middle Paleolithic/Middle Stone Age scavenging: new data from Kobeh Cave (Zagros Mountains) and Die Kelders Cave 1 Layer 10 (South Africa) |
| 5:45 | L.
B. Vishnyatsky The Middle Paleolithic of Central Asia |
| 6:05-6:25 | Tribute to Proferssor Jia Lanop on the occasion of his 90th birthday |
| Wednesday, March 25 8:30-12:10 | |
| 8:30 | James
Steele and Clive
Gamble Inferring diet and range use from lithic transport data |
| 8:50 | Arthur
J. Jelinek and Andre
Debenath Recent excavations at La Quina (Charente), France |
| 9:10 | Colin
Moyer Lithic Variation in the Western European Middle Paleolithic: a multivariate statistical analysis |
| 9:30 | Thierry
Tillet, Sebastien
Bernard-Guelle and Celine
Bressy Open-air Mousterian sites in the French Alps: an integrated supply strategy |
| 9:50 | April
Nowell and Philip G.
Chase Taphonomy of a purported Mousterian bone flute from Divje Babe I, Slovenia |
| 10:10-10:30 | Coffee Break |
| 10:30 | D.W.
Frayer and C. Lalueza
Fox Anterior tooth scratches, handedness and manual dexterity in fossil Europeans |
| 10:50 | Nicholas
Conard Middle Paleolithic subsistence and landuse in the Rhineland |
| 11:10 | Jurgen
Waiblinger, Nicholas
Conard, Susanne
Munzel, Petra
Kronneck and Michael
Bolus Current research on the Middle to Upper Paleolithic transition in Southern Germany |
| 11:30 | Helene
Coqueugniot and Anne-Marie
Tillier Late Pleistocene children from Central Eurasia: a cross-sectional study of cranial metric variation |
| 11:50 | Nuno
Ferreira Bicho and C. Reid
Ferring The Pleistocene human occupation of Santa Cita (Central Portugal): geoarchaeology, lithic technology, raw material economy and habitat structures |
| Wednesday, March 25 2:00-6:00 | |
| 2:00 | Joao
Zilhao The last Neanderthals: cultural variability and extinction |
| 2:20 | L.H.
Robbins and M.L.
Murphy The Early Late Stone Age and evidence of modern human behavior |
| 2:40 | Julio
Mercader and Alison
Brooks Long term settlement of lowland tropical rain forests: the evidence from Ituri, D. R. Congo |
| 3:00 | Simon
Holdaway Stone artefact assemblage variability and scales of temporal resolution at Bone Cave, Tasmania, Australia |
| 3:20 | Coffee Break |
| 3:40 | Anthony
E. Marks A Szeletian in the Eastern Crimea: Buran Kaya III, Level C |
| 4:00 | Steven
L. Kuhn The Early Upper Paleolithic of the Hatay (Turkey): Ucagizli cave and Kanal |
| 4:20 | Laurence
Bartram and Paola
Villa Understanding site formation processes at Bois Roche (Charente, France), a Late Pleistocene hyena den |
| 4:40 | Randall
White and Yvette
Taborin The personal ornaments from Arcy-sur-Cure (Yonne), France: technological and evolutionary perspectives |
| 5:00 | Jorg
Orschiedt Evidence of Secondary burial from the Late Paleolithic in Southwestern Germany |
| 5:20 | Lawrence
Straus and M.
Gonzalez Morales Tardiglacial settlement in the Cantabrian Cordillera, Northern Spain |
| 5:40-6:00 | Business Meeting |